It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife. [i. e., his step-mother. She was probably a pagan, and hence is not rebuked. The offense of the Corinthians had been magnified in that they had... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. [Our last section shows in what manner they had been puffed up. Had they been mourning over their real sinfulness, instead of priding themselves in their philosophical knowledge, this... [ Continue Reading ]
For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing [The swiftness of Paul's judgment stands in sharp contrast with the tardiness and toleration of the Corinthians. The broken structure of this verse and the one w... [ Continue Reading ]
in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,... [ Continue Reading ]
to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. [The full assembly of the church was required, for the discipline was to be administered by the entire body. The marked way in which Paul assured them of his presence, and th... [ Continue Reading ]
Your glorying is not good. [Their glorying was sinful enough at best, but much more so when it was so inopportune.] _Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?_... [ Continue Reading ]
Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ :... [ Continue Reading ]
wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. [Verses 6-8 form an enlargement of verse 2. The reference to the passover was probably suggested by the season of the year (1 Corinthians 16:8... [ Continue Reading ]
I wrote unto you in my epistle [see introduction] _to have no company with fornicators_;... [ Continue Reading ]
not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of this world [In this earlier Epistle the apostle had directed that fornicators and other backsliders inside the church, should be treated as outcasts, sinc... [ Continue Reading ]
but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater [Colossians 3:5],_ or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat_. [Have no interchange of hospitality which would imply brotherly reco... [ Continue Reading ]
For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?... [ Continue Reading ]
But them that are without God judgeth. [These facts showed that the apostle had referred to those within the church; the discipline of those without is exclusively in the hands of God.] _Put away the wicked man from among yourselves._ [A summary command as to him and other wicked men.]... [ Continue Reading ]